Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veronica enjoyed its unchallenged position until 1967, when Dutch radio and TV introduced commercials. In the same year a lively pop music radio channel called Hilversum Three was put into operation by the official broadcasting associations. To add to Veronica's troubles, a second pirate ship. Radio Northsea, appeared off the Dutch coast in 1970. At first Radio Northsea was content to broadcast in English...
After hearing the tapes, Sadat called up Sharaf and told him to inform Gomaa "that I have accepted his resignation"-despite the fact that the Interior Minister had not submitted a resignation. Sharaf "wept on the telephone," Sadat recalled during his broadcast last week. "I said, 'When I lose confidence in someone, I cannot maneuver or lay an ambush. I am straightforward and always in the open...
...been telling his California constituents that "taxes should hurt." Now, one of the more intriguing and potentially damaging political stories of the year is that he paid no state income tax at all in 1970 (because of business reverses). Disclosure came through a most unlikely channel: a gossipy item broadcast on the student radio station at Sacramento State College by a 29-year-old widowed mother of three who is studying journalism there and was on the air only to fill a course requirement...
Rose King apparently exercised no particular journalistic skill in getting the story, and professes surprise at the storm that blew up following her broadcast over KERS-FM. "I really didn't think anybody was listening," she says with a chuckle. "I didn't see the tax return myself, but the story was all over campus. I heard it from several sources, and I was convinced they were reliable...
Snares and Trumpets. The result, a two-act, two-hour TV opera, was broadcast jointly last weekend by the BBC and America's NET. As it turned out, Owen Wingrave was something less than Britten's best. Though carefully modulated for the home listener, the vocal writing showed little warmth or melodic appeal. The score, for a busy 46-piece orchestra, with snares and trumpets to underline the military motif and bright, chiming, exotic percussive passages more suggestive of Bali than Victorian England, rarely conveyed resonances of gothic mystery...